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With just two days to go, stars past and present are still adding their names to the very impressive list of attendees at the 2010 Rally Show at Chatsworth this coming weekend (5/6th June).

HENNING SOLBERG, brother of 2003 World Rally Champion Petter and a regular on WRC events himself, will be helping JARI-MATTI LATVALA with the driving duties over the two days of the Rally Show. They will be sharing the BP Ford Abu Dhabi Ford Focus WRC 09 which M-Sport are sending down from their base at Dovenby in Cumbria. more...

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Faro, Portugal — The Pirelli Star Driver programme moved on to the Vodafone Rally of Portugal this week, where all five crews made good progress on the hot and dusty stages inland from the event’s Faro base. Four of the five Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution Xs made it to the finish at the Algarve Stadium this afternoon (Sunday), with only Ott Tänak failing to get through the final test. The Estonian driver had set the pace through the first two days on this second of six World Rally Championship outings for the young drivers. more...

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Hokkaido, Japan — Australian rally-driving star Chris Atkinson is aiming to get his FIA Asia Pacific Rally Championship campaign firmly on track in Japan’s Hokkaido Rally.

Lining up for round two of the competition with the factory-backed Proton R3 Malaysia Rally Team, Atkinson is fourth in the drivers’ standings after a troubled start in Malaysia last month. more...

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Auckland, New Zealand — BP Ford Focus driver Finland’s Jari-Matti Latvala won Rally New Zealand after a day of high drama in the four special stages near Raglan.
 
Latvala and co-driver Miikka Anttila snatched the win on the second run of the iconic Whaanga Coast test, the very last stage of the 2010 FIA World Rally Championship’s fifth round. Latvala pushed hard to overtake overnight rally leader Sébastien Ogier of the Citroën Junior Team.
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Auckland, New Zealand — World champion Sébastien Loeb has put himself within an inch of the lead in Rally New Zealand as fellow Citroen pilot, Sébastien Ogier leads after crews returned to Auckland after the second day of action.
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Auckland, New Zealand — Norwegian Petter Solberg, driving his privately-entered Citroen C4 world rally car, leads Rally New Zealand, after the first day of competition on ultra-slippery gravel roads north of Auckland.
 
Solberg, a firm favourite with New Zealand rally fans, set the pace in the fifth round of the 2010 FIA World Rally Championship from the outset, winning stage one and opening a narrow lead over Sébastien Ogier’s similar car, despite running second on the road.
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Auckland, New Zealand — With five leadership changes, the first day of Rally New Zealand has been a very exciting one. Dani Sordo and Marc Marti, who led after the first loop, are lying fourth this evening just a few seconds behind the leaders. Sébastien Loeb and Daniel Elena, who lost over a minute following a slight off, are in seventh place overall. more...

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Auckland, New Zealand — At the end of the first day of Rally New Zealand, Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia occupy third place overall after notching up four fastest stage times. The Citroën Junior Team crew is just 3.9 seconds behind the leader at the end of 159 competitive kilometres.

The opening day of the Rally New Zealand got underway on Friday morning. The crews left the service park in Auckland at 0715 for a route that took them to the extreme north of the country. more...

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Auckland, New Zealand — Stobart M-Sport Ford’s Matthew Wilson/Scott Martin got off to a flying start for the 40th edition of Rally New Zealand recording the second fastest stage time in the morning’s opening loop. Team-mates Henning Solberg/Ilka Minor made steady progress in their Ford Focus RS WRC, finishing in eighth position after completing nine lengthy stages comprising of 159.18km. more...

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Auckland, New Zealand — Patrik Sandell, driving a Red Bull-backed Skoda Fabia S2000, has ended the opening day of the Rally New Zealand in fifth position of the Super 2000 runners.

While the Swede is relieved to get to the end of the opening day, it has not been the best of starts for the Skoda driver. Patrik, who is competing in the Super 2000 World Rally Championship this year, hit a large bird on only the second stage, which damaged his windscreen and put him off his rhythm. more...